Taps. 4215. 
CYCNOCHES Loppigest:. 
Mr. Loddiges’ Swanwort. 
Nat, Ord. OrcHIDE%.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
_ Gen, Char. Perianthium explanatum. Sepala lateralia lanceolata basi pau- 
lulum sub labello connata, supremo angustiore. Pefala latiora falcata, decurva. 
Labellum \iberum, calcaratum, columna continuum, lanceolatum, integerrimum, 
ungue abrupto calloso. Columna elongata, arcuata, teres, apice clavata, auricu- 
lis 2 faleatis ad latera clinandrii. Anthera bdilocularis. Pollinia 2, postice 
sulcata, subpedicellata; caudicula lineari, glandula grossa.—Habitus Cadasedi 
(sed racemus terminalis). Lindl. 
Cyrcnocuss Loddigesii; floribus maximis, petalis falcatis sepalisque lateralibus 
lato-lanceolatis, labello lanceolato recto carnoso acuminato, ungue lato brevi, 
columna elongata arcuata sepalo supremo lineari-lanceolato vix breviore. 
Cycnocues Loddigesii. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p.154. Bot. Reg. t. 1742. 
This very striking Orchideous plant, the species upon which 
the genus was founded, is a native of Surinam, and was intro- 
duced from thence, by Messrs. Loddiges through J. H. Lance, 
Esq. As may be expected, it requires great heat and moisture, 
and, thus treated, it flowers readily in the autumnal months, at 
which season our specimen bloomed in the Royal Gardens of 
Kew. The column, long and slender and much convex, has not 
inaptly been compared to a swan’s neck, whence, as is well known, 
the generic appellation is derived ; but to us it appears to have a 
still greater similarity to a Cobra de Capella, the swollen and 
dilated apex below the anther very accurately representing the 
inflated throat of that dreaded reptile, while the colour and marking 
serve to increase the resemblance. ne 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs large, stout, elongated, subcylindrical, 
clustered, sheathed with large, distichous, pale green, striated 
scales, on the upper ones of which the broad-lanceolate membra- 
nous leaves are articulated. Raceme terminal, drooping, not 
much longer than the pseudo-bulbs, flowering almost to the 
base of the peduncle ; flowers 5-6, very large. Sepals and petals — 
nearly uniform in colour, greenish-brown, the former blotched © 
with brown :—in shape the two lower sepals and the petals are 
z, : 
MARCH Ist, 1846. 
